We listened to music composed by Gustav Theodore Holst.
We were mesmerised by the many sounds put together 
Then we listened to ‘Connect It’ by Anna Meredith. Can you believe she doesn’t use any instruments? Instead she uses a variety of rhythmic sounds and movements passed between performers.
Next we thought of ideas of how to make music which only uses body sounds.
We are looking forward to composing our very own music.
Today we attended our first STEM workshop delivered by our lab technicians, Katie and Sam in P7.26
They told us about microscopy, the technique of using microscopes to view tiny objects or detail that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
First we took part in a quiz to predict what the below images, photographed under a microscope are:
Next we used the veho microscopes to look at a variety of objects.
We learned that scientists use microscopy to study the structure of materials, detail of living things and microorganisms.
Mrs MacFarlane, a communications officer came in to tell us all about her job. Mrs MacFarlane began with an interesting fact – around one quarter of the worlds population can speak English. This made us think, what languages do the rest of the world speak? Well, we found out that there are lots and lots! Our research in the ICT suite today suggests that there are around 7000 languages spoken in the world today. We were amazed with this fact!
Mrs MacFarlane’s job consists of lots of writing and the stories she writes are published on newspapers, leaflets and on the internet.
At university, Mrs McFarlane learned russian. We sang the alphabet in russian and learned different words in russian too.
At the end, we were given a writsband and a sticker which said ‘talk to me’ in a different language.
A big thank you to Mrs McFarlane for taking your time out and sharing your knowledge with us. We learned lots!
This year for World Book Day we took part in a book swap at school 
We thought this was a great way to recycle old books and read new ones. We were chuffed with our swaps.
We hope you found your £1 book token in homework folders yesterday. Please follow the link below for further details as to how to use it.
Happy reading 
To start our day we had an ERIC session and it was lovely to see everyone relaxing with a good book.
Then we went into groups to work on our word building and reading skills. One group decided to revise their capital letters by making them out of Kapla!
We like finding new and interesting ways to learn!
This week our guests visitors were Dr O’Donnell and Dr Wyllie.
A huge thank you for sharing your world of work with P1.1 
Most exciting of all, we were given the opportunity to look inside a doctor’s bag and investigate a few tools which doctors use.
We listened to each other’s hearts using a stethoscope.
We carried out water and urine (apple juice) ph level tests.
We looked inside each other’s ears using an otoscope and looked in each other’s eyes using an ophthalmoscope.
We checked one another’s pulse and reflexes.
We sneezed (glitter) into our hands and watched the germs spread.
Thank you once again to our visitors, it was an inspirational experience for the pupils of P1.1 
We have been busy learning many different skills in Numeracy:
Doubles
Adding 3 Numbers
Number Stories
We also took our learning outdoors. We created calculations and challenged each other. This was fun!
Primary 1.1 representing World Thinking Day on 22nd February 2019, a day of international friendship which has been celebrated since 1926.
A big thank you to Mr Ahmed who came along to tell us about his job as a business development manager. He told us about the device his company sell called lightfoot which monitors the speed you drive at. The lights change from green to red if you drive too fast and you can set the device up to send you audio nudges as warnings. If you drive safely and achieve ‘elite driver’ standard, you have the chance of winning lots of rewards and prizes. Well done to Sam who won a prize for listening well. The boys and girls had lots of interesting questions to ask and enjoyed hearing all about this clever piece of technology.
Mrs Sobocinski and Miss Khan remember enjoying Tap A Shapes when they were young children and the children in Primary 1.1 have been no different. They have loved tapping the wooden shapes into place on the cork board creating a range of patterns, shapes and pictures. Tap A Shapes encourage young brains to foster creativity and helps to develop hand eye coordination and fine motor skills.
‘I made a police car’ Mohammad Fareed
‘I made a fire engine’ Yusuf
‘Mines is a police car too’ Uzair
